Family GRYLLOTALPIDAE

Male, body length 35mm

Click here to hear calling song,
5 sec.

This Mole Cricket look similar with the Common Mole Cricket except
smaller in size. Their bodies are dull brown in colour. Their calling song is
a quite different. We can hear them everywhere in a hot wet summer evening.
The start calling after dark for half an hour. If we follow the sound and come
close to them very carefully. We can see them making the sound just at the
entrance of their burrows. We see them sometimes come out from their burrows
and wandering around in our backyard. We can catch them easily if they come on
to the concrete. If they are on the lawn or on the sand, they will quickly dig
into the ground and disappear.